At the 81st annual Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner Thursday, New York Police Department Commissioner Jessica Tisch roasted NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s allies, while the mayor was sitting right there.

The Al Smith Dinner, as it is known, is an event to raise funds for Catholic charities and vulnerable women and children in the Archdiocese of New York. The gala is a white-tie affair held in New York City once a year.

“Things have got a little hot for me this week. Just in case, anyone hiring?” she joked, referring to calls earlier in the week for her ouster by democratic socialists such as Darializa Avila Chevalier, the congressional candidate who won her primary with the mayor’s support.

“There’s a lot of talk these days that the mayor’s friends don’t like like me. That is simply not true. President Trump and I get along great,” she added, prompting laughter from those in attendance, including the mayor.

When asked about the calls for Tisch’s resignation following the shooting of a man in New York City by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents, Mamdani backed the police commissioner unequivocally, saying Tuesday that he had no plans to fire her.

Chevalier had stated at the time, “The NYPD’s Strategic Response Unit must be dismantled as quickly as possible, and Commissioner Tisch must resign.”

“Jessica Tisch is the police commissioner. I have no plans to change that,” the mayor told reporters.

Mamdani defended Tisch’s record, citing that as the reason he kept her on as commissioner in the first place upon his assumption of the mayoralty and noting record reductions in crime since the beginning of his tenure.

“The reason that I made the decision to have Jessica Tisch as the police commissioner was because of her record of uprooting corruption from the upper echelons of the NYPD while lowering crime across our city,” he explained. “And over the last 10 months that we’ve worked together, we have delivered the lowest recorded number of murders in our city’s history, the lowest recorded number of shootings, as well as shooting victims.”

The mayor and the commissioner hold opposing views on Israel. Mamdani has made his stridently anti-Israel position clear, while Tisch has remained staunchly pro-Israel.

For example, after Mamdani famously refused to join the Israel Day Parade, Tisch said, when asked about the matter, “It’s the mayor’s decision not to march and it’s my decision to march proudly.”